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Students spend spring break helping others

Matthew Reisen | April 2

Almost 10 years after Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans, a group of students traveled to the city this year for the fifth annual Alternative Spring Break to assist in outreach around the community. Lisa Lindquist, student affairs specialist, said when she started Alternative Spring Break six years ago, she was looking for ways to encourage leadership development and decided that service learning was the best way to do it. “I just want to encourage students. These times in school are opportunities to take advantage of programs like these. It’s great to do the traditional spring break, don’t get me wrong, I think that’s awesome,” Lindquist said. “But I think it’s also great to consider these other opportunities, not just for growth and development, but also just because they’re kind of fun. It’s a neat alternative.”

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Opinion

Dr. Peg's Perscription

Dr. Peggy Spencer | April 2

In Blackout Theater’s infamous and irreverent video “S** Burqueños Say,” Lynette leans repeatedly around a corner, offering bottles of soda of varying colors and kinds (none of them Coke), asking each time, “You want a coke? You want a coke? You want a coke?” True to our melting pot nature, Americans have a variety of names for this type of beverage. Most common are “soft drink,” “pop” or “soda.” But whatever you call them, they are bad for your health. I know you know this. Sugary drinks are largely responsible for the obesity epidemic in this country. They rot your teeth and contribute to your risk of diabetes. I have seen patients who lost 20 to 30 pounds just by cutting out sodas. In 2012, New York City even made soda consumption into a public health issue by banning the sale of any soft drink larger than 16 ounces. Two years later, this ban was overturned, to public health officials’ disappointment and soda companies’ delight.

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Culture

Review: 'Chupacabra' lost its focus

Graham Gentz | April 2

It is never a good sign when any script contains five different names under the writing credits. Such is the troubled production of the original work “The Chupacabra Cantina,” created by the local activist and Latina performance troupe Las Meganenas, which recently finished performances. The play attempts to tackle a baffling number of discordant social issues while unfortunately illuminating none of them, attempting to embed them sneakily within a broadly-cast net of New Mexican culture and convention. Where to begin? “The Chupacabra Cantina” is set in a bar in Tierra Amarilla, New Mexico, but none of that really matters. Nothing in the play really matters. There is no conflict, no tension, no plot and certainly no story. There is a lot that’s distressingly wrong about “The Chupacabra Cantina.” But the single biggest issue is simply the atrocious writing.

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News

Awareness week combats adverse views of Muslims

David Lynch | April 2

The Muslim Student Association is hosting its annual Islamic Awareness Week, an event meant to inform students about Islamic faith and culture while combating negative portrayals of Muslims in popular culture. Event coordinator Masood Mirza, a sophomore chemistry major, said the main goal is to make people conscious of Islam, and to show them that it is alive and well in America. “I feel like many people at UNM don’t know that we exist. There are Muslims on this campus, we’re present and we just want to make people aware that we’re here,” he said.

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Sports

Cole Gautsche: Same name, new position

Thomas Romero-Salas | April 1

Not many quarterbacks switch positions after starting for their first three years in college. However, Cole Gautsche is making that transition. It was announced earlier this year that he will be moving to tight end after being New Mexico’s starting quarterback for the last three seasons. The junior will also redshirt this upcoming season in order to fully heal the broken left foot he suffered in a 31-28 win at UNLV this past November.

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Sports

Lobos fight back vs. Texas Tech

Liam Cary-Eaves | April 1

New Mexico’s youth shined against the No. 19 team in the country during a 6-5 victory over the Texas Tech Red Raiders Tuesday afternoon at Lobo Field. Two freshman utility players led the Lobos through an unscathed ending despite UNM’s rocky start. Hayden Schilling and Lewis Gonzalez helped shut down Texas Tech’s offense in the final three innings of play, pitching scoreless relief efforts.

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News

Freshman calling attention to MS fight

Marielle Dent | April 1

When she was 8 years old, Julia Purrington’s family received bad news. Her father had been diagnosed with primary-progressive multiple sclerosis, a disease of the central nervous system that interrupts the flow of information within the brain and between the brain and body. Purrington decided to take a stand against MS when she was in seventh grade and has been involved in raising awareness ever since.

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News

Lamphere's lawsuit a landmark for equality

Lena Guidi | April 1

In 1973, Louise Lamphere went up for tenure at the Department of Anthropology at Brown University. A researcher in the budding field of feminist anthropology, she was one of the few women faculty members in a tenure-track position. At the time, 97 percent of Brown’s tenured faculty counterparts were men. When Lamphere was denied tenure in May of the next year, she filed a class action lawsuit against the university on the basis of sex discrimination. The case, Louise Lamphere v. Brown University, paved the way for increased gender equality in academia nationwide.

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Opinion

Letter: GOP, not leftists, seem to forget we live in a republic

April 1

Editor, UNM student Sam Ryu fallaciously claims that Americans who criticize Israel are “supporting or thinking about seditious activities in order to overthrow the constitutional republic and replace it with a form of socialism.” Speaking of mental issues, what is Sam even talking about?

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News

ASUNM election season is on

David Lynch | April 1

It’s almost time to cast ballots for Associated Students of UNM elections, and voters have a choice between two presidential candidates. ASUNM senator Mack Follingstad said he is running on inclusion. His slate, GO ASUNM, focuses on electing people who have not yet served in ASUNM, something he said is essential to the survival of what the undergraduate student governing body stands for.

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Culture

Fashion Week show boost NM designers

Khadijah Jacobs | March 31

The second annual New Mexico Fashion Week Runway Show, held Saturday at the Albuquerque Convention Center, sought to recognize and promote local designers, businesses, manufacturers and other aspects of the fashion industry. Melissa Beasley, founder and executive director of Albuquerque Apparel Center, said she recognizes that there are a lot of creative people throughout New Mexico and wants to play a role in promoting those in the fashion industry.

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News

Renewable energy focus for summit

Moriah Carty | March 31

A former faculty member, who also served as commissioner of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, will visit the University Wednesday for the Southwest Clean Energy Transmission Summit. Suedeen Kelly taught at UNM’s School of Law for about 12 years before she was appointed by President George W. Bush to the commissioner of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.

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Opinion

Light pollution found to be wasteful and harmful

Amy Adams | March 31

Light pollution refers to excessive and unproductive artificial light that intrudes on the night landscape. Sometimes light pollution results from too many light sources crowding an area, which produce more light than needed. More often, light pollution results from lighting structures that direct light poorly, usually to the extent that less than half of the light emitted is used for the intended purpose of illuminating a particular object or patch of ground. Remaining light is wasted, usually radiating into space, illuminating unintended areas, or casting glare that interferes with night vision and surveillance.

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News

Dance event aids children

Kevin Haaf | March 31

LoboTHON’s wholesome fun drew hundreds of supporters, but fell short of its $62,000 fundraising goal for UNM Children’s Miracle Network Hospital. Nearly 1,000 people came to Saturday’s dance marathon event, which raised $44,268 for children who are working hard to keep going. After a year of planning, some of the organizers will now move on to different projects, while others plan to dedicate their fundraising talents to next year’s dance marathon.

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News

National security among topics slated symposium

Sayyed Shah | March 31

UNM’s National Security Studies Program will kick off its annual three-day national security symposium tomorrow. This year’s symposium, titled “Security Trends in the next Decade: Challenges, Issues and Opportunities,” will start with lectures at the law and business schools.

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Culture

UNM poets take home kudos in slam

Nayla Degreff | March 31

After months of preparation and an intense competition, three UNM students and one UNM professor earned four of the five top positions on the 2015 Grand Slam team. After pouring their hearts and souls out for the audience, the new team members were selected: Matthew Brown, Mercedez Holtry, Damien Flores, Kalid Binsunni and Aaron Cuffee.

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News

Group advocating for Tent City residents

Matthew Reisen | March 31

One local organization aims to help the residents of “Camp Resurrection” find a place to call their own in the city of Albuquerque. Dinah Vargas, a member of ABQJustice, said the group is “a grassroots direct action and advocacy organization mobilizing for social and political justice in Albuquerque and the State of New Mexico regarding accountability, state corruption, police brutality, and poverty.” ABQJustice recently got involved with the homeless community around Albuquerque, she said. The Tent City story is now, along with the campaign against police brutality, the primary focus of the group.

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Opinion

Letter: U.S. nuclear bombs threaten greatest massacres in history

March 30

The U.S. nuclear bombs designed for decades at Sandia and Los Alamos laboratories terrorize many whole nations. U.S. nuclear bombs threaten to incinerate many times more moms, dads and children than Hitler and the Nazis killed in gas ovens, concentration camps and Word War II. U.S. nuclear bombs are prepared to slaughter far more people than all the wars in human history combined. U.S. nuclear bombs are targeted to commit mass murder worldwide — thousands of times larger than the atrocities of Sept. 11, 2001. U.S. nuclear bombs are aimed to massacre far more human beings than all the street gangs, drug dealers, drunk drivers, rapists, deranged spouses, serial killers, Ku Klux Klan and Mafia combined. Even if the U.S. never again drops nuclear bombs on cities, the radioactive and chemical contamination from the making and testing of these weapons can sicken and kill millions of people for thousands of years. Many children will be ravaged by cancers or ruined immunity.

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Opinion

Letter: Obama and Saudi Arabia are both in the wrong

March 30

I have heard more than one person say the United States has the best government money can buy. In what would seem to be an unfortunate confirmation of that statement, the Obama administration has recently given its blessing to Saudi Arabia’s recent invasion of Yemen. A popular uprising in Yemen recently sent former president Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi into exile, and Saudi Arabia seems hell-bent on shooting and bombing the new Yemeni government into submission.

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News

Athletic scholarships to be expanded at UNM

Thomas Romero-Salas | March 30

Last week, New Mexico became one of the first Mountain West schools to announce that it has decided to fund the full cost of attendance for its student athletes. In an interview with LoboTV Thursday, Vice President for Athletics Paul Krebs said UNM will fund the full cost of attendance, which will add almost $1 million to the athletic budget. Athletic scholarships will increase by approximately $2,700, Krebs said. In the past, athletic scholarships only covered tuition and fees, room and board and books. The full cost of attendance now includes those needs plus course fees, academic-related supplies and other basic necessities.